On 11 Oct 2010, at 14:54, oliver@first.in-berlin.de wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:45:49PM +0100, Chris Yocum wrote:
>> Dear Everyone,
>>
>> I just wanted to let Ocaml'ers know that I am currently working on an
>> apache combined log parser.  It is still in very early stages of
>> development but patches/comments/feature requests/bug reports are  
>> very
>> welcome.  The code lives on github (http://github.com/cyocum/OPLP).
> [...]
>
> Aha... long ago I had done something similar, and it had an sql-like
> language for using it.




I do something like this, but using OCaml to load a logfile into  
SQLite, and analyze it with "real" SQL.



http://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/analyzing-logfiles-1/



Probably my technique using sscanf wouldn't be fast enough for  
something as big as an Apache log that might have a million lines.



Cheers,




G